Word: museum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fogg Museum security guard last month foiled what is assumed to be an attempted theft of a Degas sculpture with an estimated value of one million dollars, a police spokesperson said yesterday...
According to a Harvard University Police report, a museum security guard found three screws that hold the Vitrene case to the floor loosened...
When curators at New York City's Museum of Modern Art were preparing the current exhibit of the work of Steven Holl, the architect did not just settle back and wallow in the flattery of the high Establishment. Instead, Holl -- who is opinionated, uncompromising and, concerning architectural details, fussy to the point of fanaticism -- turned opinionated, uncompromising and fussy...
...that some of the walls of the gallery be covered with rough plaster, like many of Holl's own interiors. And he demanded that certain salient details -- a basswood-and-airplane silk screen from a Manhattan apartment, for instance -- be built right into the exhibit's walls. Fortunately, the museum indulged him: the result (on display together with a handsome exhibit of Emilio Ambasz buildings) is the liveliest MOMA architectural show in years and palpable evidence that Holl, at 41, is one of the most influential younger architects in America today...
ROBERT ADAMS: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE AMERICAN WEST, Philadelphia Museum of Art. A tribute to the master photographer of an imperiled landscape, in which nature's beauty is elbowed aside by parking lots, trash and suburban sprawl. Through April...